Generating Reports

1. Use Quick search to find and run a report or a dashboard by name. Search is case insensitive, supports partial entries, and will display a list of potential matches using a string match. If the Cloud is enabled, search results will also include templates available from the cloud. Because you can directly run a report from your Quick search results, this enables you to preview any cloud template before you save it locally.

As you enter the report or dashboard name in the Quick search field, up to 10 potential matches are displayed. If the report or dashboard is shown, you can select and run it directly from the match list. You can also select All Items to display the full search results page.

You can use the Explorer to browse through your StorageConsole reports. Select All Reports from the Explorer menu and the reports are displayed by product. See also Templates, Reports, and Dashboards Overview.

The scope selector is unique to the report you are generating, displaying only the parameters that are relevant to the specific report.

Note: When the Portal determines that a large amount of data has been returned for display, the resulting report window provides paging links: Previous and Next.

In general, cloud templates and their reports function the same as out-of-the-box templates and reports. There are a few cases where they behave differently. All templates, out-of-the-box, cloud and custom, are linked to their reports. This means that changes made to the template are inherited by the linked report. This rule is true for cloud linked reports, with one addition, when a cloud template is updated in cloud, you are prompted to accept or refuse the update when you save the report.

For example, if you run a cloud template to create a report and save it, Cloud One, the cloud template and your report, Cloud One, are saved locally in your portal. Now let’s say the cloud template has been modified by APTARE customer support and a new version has been promoted to the cloud. The next time you save Cloud One, you are prompted to accept the template modifications or refuse them.

For certain reports, an Advanced option in the scope selector enables the selection of the unit of measure—MBytes, GBytes, or TBytes.

If you notice a discrepancy in the values reported by the Portal reports versus the values you see in the backup product itself, this is likely due to the conversion of the units of measure.

When 1024 is used for calculations, it refers to binary multiples: kibibyte (KiB), mebibyte (MiB), gibigyte (GiB), tebibyte (TiB), and pebibyte (PiB). When 1000 is used for calculations, it refers to decimal multiples: kilobyte (KB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB), terabyte (TB), and petabyte (PB). By default, the units for values in reports are displayed as binary multiples. This default setting can be changed by modifying a user's profile.

For reports that are the results of drilling into details from a parent report, those detail reports can have their own unit of measure - separate from the parent report settings. Once you’ve drilled into a child report, you can change the measurement unit to see more accurate or easily understandable information. For example an Array and Capacity Utilization Summary report shows aggregated data in TiB.When you drill down, it may be more useful to switch to MiB.